Chinese Class Review 12/13

The teacher started class today with a little game called "Charades". The teacher held out cards with Chinese word(s) on them. The students split into two teams. There would be a student as the role of the guesser facing all the other students on the team,  the team then would have to act out or say the word(s) on the card that the the teacher is holding in English. Each team gets two minutes to do this.  If the first person up cannot guess a word, the next person in line from the "team" section takes their turn as the guesser.  The person that could not guess the word will go back to the "team" section and help the guesser guess the word.  The students all loved this game!

  The words we learned today are 妈,们,国,也. We played "beat the teacher" after learning the words as always.  

 Today class 1A and 1B combined and is learning a dance together for the Chinese New Years Festival that NSCS puts on each year. The the song they are learning together to perform at the Festival is called "小宝贝' and here is the link to the song so you can practice at home :   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNKXhQ30rEs 

 

 

12/6 Class Review

Hopefully everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Since we had not had class for two weeks, we began the lesson with review. First, we looked at some of the more difficult characters we have learned so far and laid those characters on the floor. Next, we divided the students into two teams to play a review game. One student from each team was sent to the board to write the characters that other students chose. Whichever student completed the character accurately won their team a point. Both teams were equally skilled and the game ended in a tie!

We learned four new characters today: 工, 作, 生, 在. While learning the pinyin of these characters, we added new Pinyin cards to the students' collection: ong, eng. We devoted time to hole-punching the pinyin cards and putting them on metal rings to help students keep their cards organized.

Next, as a whole class and individually, we read aloud several times lesson ten from our textbook: 我的爸爸是医生. Afterwards, students gathered in the middle of the classroom to discuss the variety of careers out there. In pairs, students told each other the occupations of their parents. 

Last but not the least, THANK YOU, to all the families of C1A class, for the generous appreciation gifts we received from you! It has been a wonderful semester working with your children and we are looking forward to an efficient-learning and hard-working new semester next year!